1857 Gulf Stream Chart, detail.

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Detail of an 1857 Gulf Stream Chart, showing the stream's northernmost extention, the North Atlantic Drift, it's limit and how it connects locations from the Caribbean up the eastern seaboard of the Atlantic and across the ocean to Europe. Also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) From 'Gulf Stream and Drift' from Matthew Fontaine Maury (American 1806 - 1873)

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